At once from anguish frees us
And saves the soul from death.
Come, then, to this Physician,
His help he’ll freely give;
He makes no hard condition,
’Tis only—look and live.
This tune is found also in GOS, No. 227. A remake is in OSH 176. It is ‘Banks of Sweet Dundee’, Sharp i., 399. Related also to ‘Pinery Boy’, Shoemaker, 262; and ‘Virginian Lover’, Sharp, ii., 150. The negro song ‘Sin-Sick Soul’, SS, No. 66, is based textually and melodically on the above song.
No. 32
[LOOK OUT] or WHEN I WAS YOUNG, OSH 90
Hexatonic, mode 3 A (I II III — V VI VII)